extravagancy

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The Chinese regard the West's failure to make use of excrement as "extreme extravagancy," says Wittwer.

From Time Magazine Archive

No enthusiasm ever reached to such a pitch of extravagancy as that: a spirit may be an illusion; a body is a real thing, an object of sense, in which there can be no mistake.

From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William

A more curious extravagancy was uttered to me by a professor of applied mathematics.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

Wherefore, they, looking upon what the captains did to be, as they called it, a fruit of the extravagancy of their wild and foolish fancies, rather despised them than feared them.'

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony

It can often be proved, when any of them exhibit marked extravagancy, that such extravagancy dates back as far as the second or third century.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William